My programming ramblings

Raspberry Pi Raspbian - Building and Installing Vim 8.0

Posted on September 24, 2016 by Paul

About two weeks ago Vim 8 was released with some notable changes. While I’m not a Vim fanatic, I tend to use it for quick edits on my Raspberry Pi over the network. Currently, Raspbian Jessie comes with the venerable Vim 7.4 and it will be a while until this will be replaced with version 8.

Fortunately, compiling Vim from sources on Raspbian is pretty straightforward.

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